on beauty

The Telegraph has an excerpt from Zadie Smith's latest novel (nominated for the Booker even though it hasn't been released),
On Beauty:

This faux Brooklyn accent belonged to neither Howard nor Kiki, and had only arrived in Levi's mouth three years earlier, as he turned 12. Jerome and Zora had been born in England, Levi in America. But all their various American accents seemed, to Howard, in some way artificial - not quite the products of this house of his wife. None, though, was as inexplicable as Levi's. Brooklyn? The Belseys were located 200 miles north of Brooklyn. Howard felt very close to commenting on it this morning (he had been warned by his wife not to comment on it), but now Levi appeared from the hallway and disarmed his father with a gappy smile before biting the top off a muffin he held in his hand.

Via Maud Newton